Migration Alliance at Yale

Our Mission:

We are an organization of undergraduate students passionately devoted to aiding refugees and forced migrants. At its core, that means supporting refugees resettled in Greater New Haven. It also means fostering awareness of the worldwide refugee crisis through campus advocacy.

Our Activities:

Payne Whitney Gym Event Direct Service Since the previous semester, Migration Alliance at Yale has helped provided access for children of refugees from IRIS to become familiar with American sports by renting Payne Whitney. We plan to offer the students the ability to play soccer, volleyball or basketball. We hope the session will teach them the importance of becoming fit. Education Group, Football Event Direct Service Tentatively, we would like to invite our cohort of students from Integrated Refugee & Immigration Services to come Yale and Lehigh play football on October 19th and have ability to check out the Yale Bowl. Continuing our program from last year where we invited our students to watch a Yale basketball game, we wish to continue by inviting them to a football game. We hope that the event will allow children of refugees to gain exposure to with American sports and provides a bonding activity between our volunteers and the children. We hope to instill in them an interest in the sport. Education Group Budget Allocation for Snacks Direct Service To be brough by our cohort of students working at Havenly throughout the semester as a part of our Education Group. Snacks will be distributed among the volunteers and the local students the volunteers work with at IRIS (Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services) weekly and distributed during the beginning of our sessions before we provide tutoring help and/or teach. We hope these snacks will continue to encourage the people we work with in Education Group to consistently come to our sessions this semester. Advocacy Group, Apartment Drive Direct Service Members of the advocacy group will be volunteering to help out immigrants with moving in to their brand new homes throughout New Haven County with Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants. One of our leaders own a car and we would like gas money for the day to reimburse them as they make several 15-minute drives throughout the day to help the new families Immigration Group Request for Rideshare Access Direct Service We request a budget for Immigration Group to set aside if our volunteers need to travel to meet with their clients across the Greater New Haven area where busses aren't accessible. Advocacy Group, Speaker Event with CIRI Advocacy or Activism Event open to the Yale Community to learn more about the work that Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants is providing to refugees within the Connecticut Area. We hope to have a speaker who is able to talk about the pro-bono work, translation services, and education opportunities they provide as well as insight to issues that refugees and migrants face locally. Open to all, we hope students take from the speaker event new insight and ways to aid the organization.

Student Leaders:

Daliya Ali El Abani - Co-Coordinator/Co-President Kaylen Yun - Co-Coordinator/Co-President

How others get involved:

Email us at migrationallianceyale@gmail.com or our co-presidents Daliya (daliya.alielabani@yale.edu) and Kaylen (kaylen.yun@yale.edu).